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- Page navigation anchor for Childhood obesityChildhood obesityOf course I very much support the concern of Rachel Pryke for the unacceptable reduction in obesity clinics and services for children within the NHS.However the editorial only mentions the essential role of our national nutritional policy very briefly towards the end of the piece. I think it is widely accepted now that the one-to-one approach to helping children and their parents to tackle obesity has very limited success in the face of the overwhelming power of the food and drink industry.Sadly, we have a very poor national policy on our food and nutritional needs and little determination to control the food and drink industry with its powerful lobbying of Parliament. In American paediatrician Robert Lustig's book (2013) 'Fat Chance: The bitter truth about sugar' he made it very clear that the 'obesity epidemic' and indeed the aetiology of the 'diabetes and metabolic syndrome pandemic' are largely associated with the amount of sugar in our processed food and drink. His book is based on meticulous research and information.Lustig tells of how he was recently side lined from the USA committee on national nutritional policy because of his stance on the seriously deleterious role of sugar in contributing to bad health. Not only that but he also recounts having 'discovered' John Yudkin's 1970's book, 'Pure White and Deadly' based...Show MoreCompeting Interests: None declared.